Violinknitter’s Reviews > The Holy Thursday Revolution > Status Update

Realized there’s no way I’m actually going to carefully read this book from cover to cover. Time to dust off Reading-For-Grad-School skills! Skim, pay attention to section headings and thesis statements, and flip ahead to the next section!

“There is a suggestion in this word ‘polis’ of…. real human contact, concern for for concrete situations, involvement with things that touch us where we live. What we are really talking about… underneath all the complications, abstractions, and rhetoric, is the conduct of concrete human-to-human relations. That is what politics is actually about, and it should be about the art of doing it worthily and well.”